5 And now, as the ^apreaching of the ^bword had a great tendency to ^clead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.

  41 The men of ^aNineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they ^brepented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.